Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-05-07
AccoMAC q A. Va SATURDAY, MAY I 1884,

transient position. Y are no
where you can learn things 20
Z can never learn in ANY other place
: What Won consider your disadval
:, tages arc your grand opportunity
$ You see an affl tent father som
: day come down on a prOmlnen
: street with his son, who has JUS
graduated from the university, ant
establishing him in business, PIT
ting one hundred thousand doll ",
of capital iii the store. We'll. so
are envious. You SAY: 30. it
only had a chance like that, yonne
!, man-if only had father to pul
one hundred thousand dollars IN
business for me, then would have
some chance in the world, eBenot
envious. You have advantages
8 over that young man whichshe has
snot.oyer yon. AS we'll might
4 1 .c,ollmesdownSto sthe@sdocks wltensa
!. vessel is about to sail for Yslparai
so, and say: LET me pilnc this
ship out of the Narrows." Why, |
would sink crew AMI cargo before
! GOT ont of tile harbor, simply be
cause [ know nothing about pilot
age. Wealthy sea captains put
their sous before the m lSt for the
reason that they know that it is
the only place where they cln learn
to be successful sailors. 1t is only
under drill that peop'e get to un
derstaud pilotage and navig ition,
and | want you to understan that
it takes no more skill to conducT a
vessel out of the harbor and across
the sea than to steer a commercial
establishment clear Of the rock -
You see every day the folly OF peo-
pie going intoa business they know
nothing about. A man makes a
fortune in one bushes; thinks there
is another occupation more com
Portable; goes into it and sinks all.
Many Of the commercial establish
ments Of our cities are giving to
their clerks q mercantile education
as thorough as Yale, or FL lrvard or
Princeton are giving scientific at
tainment to the Students matrlcu
lated. The reason there are so
many men fonndering in business
from year to year, is because their
early mercantile education was
neglected. Ask these men high in
commercial circles, aud they will
tell you they thank Col for this Sc
we're discipline of their early clerk
ship. You Can afford to endure the
wilderness march, if it is going to
end in the vineyards and orchards
of the promised land. But you say:
"Will the womanly clerks in our
stores have promotion2" Yes
Time is coming when women will
be as we'll paid for their toll IN
mercantile circles as men are now
Maid for thpir- tnil--zniaan-- 'e.--.>-------
/ is only a little while ago when wo--
men knew nothing of telegraphy,
and they were kept out OF agreat
many commercial circles where they
are now welcome; and the time
will 90 on until the woman who at
one counter in a store sells ten
thousand dollars worth Of goMls IN
a year, will get as high a salary as
the maui who at the othec c'untel
j. of the same store sells ten thou
sand dollars worth OF goods. AL
honor to Lydia, the Christian sales
woman. And in passing, l may as
we'll say that you merchants who
have female clerks in your stores
ought to treat them with grea
!. courtesy and kindness. Whel
, they are not positively engaged lie
them sit down. In England ant
/ the United States physicians hav'
5 protested against the habit OF com
;. pelling the womanly clerks IN th
F stores to stand when it was no
!. necessary for them to stand
: therefore add to the protest
c. physicians the protest OF I'd
Y Christian Church, and in the nam
e Of GOOD health, and that God VIII
1f has made the womanly constlt'
d tion more delicate thin mans,
III demand that you let her sit dow
if The second counsel I have to CIV
re TO tile clerks who are here to-da
ID is that you seek out what are 81
Is lawful regulations of your estal
I'd lishment, and then submit to thei
ne Every we'll ordered house has
usages. In military life. on shll
ks deck. in commercial life, there mu
.ir he order and discipline. Tho
m neople who do not learn how
- obey will never know how to cor
of mand. | will tell you what you
It man will reach ruin. financial al
to moral; it is the young man W
i'll thrnsts his thumb into his vest a.
he saws: "Nobody shall dictate to Il
i q L am my own master; l wliinoest
le NIT to the regulations ofthls hous'
an Between an establishment in viii
he all the employees are under thorou
to discipline and the esJaollshnie
by in which the employees do about
m they choose is the difference
est tween success and failure -betwe
to rapid accumulation and utter bal
let ruptcy. DO not come to the ST.
ne. ten minutes after the time.
md there within two seconds alter
so time. Do not think anything
viii insignificant to do well. DO
in say: "lt's only just once." FL
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